Globalization and social movements Islamism, feminism, and global justice movement /

• Main Author: Moghadam, Valentine M., 1952-
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ©2009.
• Series: Globalization
• Subjects: Social movements.; Transnationalism.; Globalization.; SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.; Electronic books.
• Online Access: View fulltext via EzAccess
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (168 pages).
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9780742557369 (electronic bk.); 0742557367 (electronic bk.); 9781442214200; 1442214201

This clear and concise book examines the crucial relationship between globalization and social movements. Deftly combining nuanced theory with rich empirical examples, leading scholar Valentine M. Moghadam focuses especially on three transnational socialmovements-Islamism, feminism, and global justice. Defining globalization as a complex process in which the mobility of capital, peoples, organizations, movements, and ideas takes on an increasingly transnational form, the author shows how both physical and electronic mobility has helped to create dynamic global social movements. Globalization h.